I do not actually know if this is regarded as fact, just FYI. I have always been told that the work done by Crossover does result in patches and code that they submit to upstream Wine, so use of Crossover also supports the Wine project. I have used vanilla Wine - sometimes with success, sometimes not, but I really never have any idea if I'm doing it "right". Having never had the time or motivation to learn the ins and outs of troubleshooting Wine issues or otherwise tweaking Wine, I've found that 99% of the time I can install what I need with Crossover, it works, and it's dead simple. They do quite a bit of their own development, as I understand it.
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It's got a really nice GUI for installation of software - and for officially supported software it will even be sure to let you know if it spots missing libs (with instructions on how to install those libs) before letting you start the install process. If you aren't familiar with Crossover, it's a paid version of Wine. So - I try to keep a licensed version of Crossover Linux around (sometimes I let it lapse and use an old version for a year or two before renewing for updates) for the odd case where I really need to get some Windows software installed (usually temporarily or for my son) and where a VM isn't an option or for whatever reason I don't want to use one.